Cotton-condenser



(No Model.)

A. G.1VIOGEHEE.

COTTON CONDENSER.

No. 360,286. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT COTTON-CONDENSER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,236, dated March 29, 1887.

Application filed June 18, 1886. Serial No. 305,553. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT GALLATIN Mo- GEH EE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montgomery, in the county of Montgomery and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in OOtlIOD'OOIldensers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawrugs, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

This invention relates to condensers for cotton-gins in which the cotton-lint, after being cut from the seed by the gin-saws, is subjected to pressure before being discharged into the lint-room, whereby it is made so compact that all sparks of fire caused by the saws engaging with the gravel and sand mixed with the cotton are extinguished before it leaves the breast.

The improvement consists in the novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which are more fully hereinafter described and claimed, and shown in the annexed drawings,

in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal central sectional View of a gin with my condenser applied thereto on the line a m of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 a side view thereof.

In carrying out my invention, and to show the application of the same, I have shown the condenser arranged close to a gin, to which it may be held fast by any suitable means.

The condenser-frame F is provided with a condensing-cylinder, G, journaled between the sides, breast H, discharge-chute l, inlet-flue J, and hopper K, located beneath the condensercylinder.

The condenser is separable from and may be applied to any cotton-gin in such manner that the cotton-lint will be delivered into the inletflue J. The condenser-cylinder is composed of perforated zinc fabric g, stretched over a series of slats, supported between disks keyed to the shaft 9 The breast is composed of sheet metal and is preferably concave on its inner side. The

outer edge is arranged to bear upon the condensing-cylinder. The inner edge is secured to a hinged board, It, at some distance above the cylinder. It is sufficiently weighted to compress the cottonlint between it and the cylinder, to extinguish any spark or fire. The breast may be made to press more heavily, if desired, by weights h laid upon the hinged board, or by any other means by which it will be forced steadily against the condenser. The lint, after leaving the gin by way of the flue a, enters the flue J of the condenser and passes between the breast and cylinder, and is compressed into a web or fleece, which makes its exit by way of the chute I into the lint-room, to be packed for transportation. The sand, dirt, and any other foreign matter heavier than the cotton- .lint coming in contact with the condensingcylinder either passes through the same and drops into the hopper K or passes directly through the space j, between the end of the bottom of the flue J and the cylinder, and thence into the hopper, from which it finds its way to the ground below.

The end of the shaft 9', which supports the condensing-cylinder, is provided with a band pulley, G, around which passes a belt, (3%, driven from any suit-able source of power, and by which motion is imparted to the condensing cylinder. An endless belt, or, passes around cone-pulleys G" and L on the shafts g and l, for communicating motion from shaft 9* to shaft I, and varies the motion of the conveyer M by having its position shifted relative to the pulleys.

By having the breast H concaved on its inner side the cotton is more closely condensed, as it is held a longer time between it and the condensing-cylinder, and by making it of sheet metal and having it attached at its inner portion to the weighted board the outer end will yield slightly and more readily conform to the curvature of the cylinder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein shown and described cotton-condenser, consisting of a frame, the inlet-flue at one end, the discharge-chute at the other end, the condensing cylinder mounted between said flue and chute and having a space between it and the end of the inlet-flue, for the purpose described, the hopper located beneath the cylinder midway between the inlet-flue and discharge-chute, the weighted hinged board located above the cylinder, and the concaved sheet-metal breast having one edge secured to the hinged board and the other arranged to 

